When an emissions tax is imposed on production of a good, the price will be __________ than it would be in the absence of the tax, and the equilibrium quantity will be __________ :
a. higher, higher
b. lower, lower
c. lower, higher
d. higher, lower
Ans: d. higher, lower
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A) an oligopoly. B) a monopolistically competitive market. C) a monopoly market. D) a perfectly competitive market. E) a collusively protected market.
Which of the following price indices comes closest to measuring the cost of living of the typical household?
A) GDP deflator B) consumer price index C) producer price index D) household price index
Psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky conducted the following experiments by asking a sample of people the following questions:
Scenario A: "Imagine that you have decided to see a play and paid the admission price of $10 per ticket. As you enter the theater you discover that you have lost the ticket. The seat was not marked and the ticket cannot be recovered. Would you pay $10 for another ticket?" Scenario B: "Imagine that you have decided to see a play where admission is $10 per ticket. As you enter the theater you discover that you have lost a $10 bill. Would you still pay $10 for a ticket for the play?" As long as additional tickets are available, there's no meaningful difference between losing $10 in cash before buying a ticket, and losing the $10 ticket after buying it. In both cases, you are out $10. Yet, far more subjects (88 percent) in Scenario B say they would pay $10 for another ticket and see the play while in Scenario A, only 46 percent of the subjects say they would be willing to spend another $10 to see the play. Which of the following is the best explanation for the results of the experiment? A) The endowment effect applies in Scenario A since people already own the ticket and therefore it is more valuable but this is not so in Scenario B. B) In Scenario A, people make an immediate connection between the lost ticket and the play and feel poorer by incorrectly assigning a greater value to the value of the ticket whereas in Scenario B, they do not make the connection between the lost $10 bill and the play. C) In Scenario B, people had not anticipated spending an additional $10 so in effect the price of the ticket is $20 and not $10 whereas in Scenario A, the price of the ticket is still $10. D) The net benefit derived from watching the play is lower in Scenario A where the effective cost is $20 compared to the net benefit in Scenario B.
Researchers believe that the economy grows at least one percentage point less annually when:
a. the ratio of public debt to GDP exceeds 90 percent for at least five years in a row. b. the ratio of public debt to GDP exceeds 50 percent for at least two years in a row. c. the growth rate of population falls for at least five years in a row d. the rate of inflation is below 4 percent for at least two years in a row. e. the growth rate of real interest rates falls for at least five years in a row.